Ph.D. Students

Lauren Crockett-Girard’s primary area of research is 20th Century American literature and film with focus on zombie theory, monster theory, horror, and apocalyptic literature. She is also interested in continental philosophy, focusing on the philosophy of literature, Kantian ethics, and existentialism. For her dissertation project, she wants to look at the role that religion (particularly Evangelicalism) plays in crafting visions of the apocalypse from an American Studies perspective. 

Her teaching experience at Boston College includes the First-Year Writing Seminar (on the theme of “language and worldview”) and Literature Core (on the theme of “literary monsters”). She will be teaching an English elective in Spring 2023 titled “The Apocalypse in Literature and Culture.” 

She is currently preparing a paper titled “The Dead Don’t Die: Genre, Parody, and the Failure of the Zombie as an Agent of Social Change” for presentation at the International Gothic Association’s 2022 conference.

Lauren received her BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Assumption University in 2019.